2ch has taken the unusual step of fighting back against the wicked Korean fifth column it believes is behind most of the ills of Japanese society by producing some English language propaganda of its own, targeted at American anime fans.

The document was mailed to at least one North American university anime club, and identifies itself as the handiwork of the Vippers – denizens of 2ch’s “VIP” board, which is known even on 2ch for its eccentric and activist character.

Aside from being a surprisingly thorough outline of some of the less crazed claims which 2ch endlessly fulminates over (and which were largely responsible for a series of large-scale anti-Fuji TV demonstrations in 2011), the document is presented in unusually good English (for 2ch at least) and appears to have been quite carefully prepared.

The veracity of the claims made is another matter – they range from the usual xenophobic delusions of foreign infiltration beloved of the Internet right, to some rather more well-founded concerns about the supposed efforts of Korean nationalists to stealthily advance their national interests in Japan and beyond, and the distressingly obvious lack of reliable politicians and media Japan is afflicted by.

Whatever the truth behind their claims, they do at least give English speakers a great deal of insight into the thinking current across much of the Japanese Internet.

no, they have a point in several areas... but there are allot of dilutions too.

japan is to sensitive about nuke anything, so disregard EVERY comment they ever make about that. it would like ameriaca hating japan and germany irrationally because of shit that happened over 70~ years ago

japan is also to focuses on that korea as a government is putting these people in place, and not just these people getting there on their own and wanting a more pro korea attitude than fuck korea and fuck them hard that the internet wants.

all mass media is corrupt, in america was sopa even fucking covered by ANYONE out side of a "this gets rid of piracy google, what the fuck are you against it for" that was on the today show.

now about how easy it is for imagrants to take advantage of the system... we have that in america too. people come for collage, can get grants easily and fuck off back to their country after collage.

japanese politics is also a very corrupt area, as is the poliece, and the education is very retarded in my opinion too, not the content, but the people.

japan, you have more problems than what koreans are doing, fix those first.

There's also the thing were stupid people breed, which would be fine if it was possible to educate children from poor parents who don't know the first things about upbringing. Which is of course impossible. Due to various circumstances.

Besides, did memorizing stuff ever made someone smarter? is exactly what is wrong with school.

It's (most probably) true they have an issue about koreans in media, but most 2ch and especially the neto-yu are becoming too paranoid to take righteous action, they now have become a censoring force rather than a free-speech one.

They need to clean corruption in japanese government and civil structure first, then remove biasing of japanese against foreigners if they want any help from overseas. Then will be when saying "we japanese are not racist" will be taken more seriously

Did they even proof-read what they blab about or do they believe they are so "righteous" in every way possible that they couldnt even bring themselves the consider the probability of being ever slightly wrong in so many different aspects???

Exactly. I don't see them complaining about all the American pop culture they readily consume among others. I liked the part where he emphasized "Japanese are not racist..". He should have added, "..except for the Koreans and Chinese."

Yeah seriously WTF 2ch, at this rate you might even be worse than America at thinking how you guys are the whole world or something.

Fucking hell, give it a fucking rest and go do something more important for yourselves and your country. The reason why your society is getting worse is yourselves, especially if all you guys do is bitch about meaningless things.

it really isn't racism. more like nationalism maybe? i don't know. but in order for it to be racism, koreans and japanese have to be of different race, which they are not. in any case, japan does that kind of crap all the time. it's just more apparent with koreans and chinese because these two countries actually possess ability to be competitive against japan. in either case, the more they are like that, the less likely others are willing to do business with them, and the bigger handicap they will have against korea and china.

Are you sure? Akihito himself claims to have Korean blood [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/dec/28/japan.worlddispatch]... but speaking of media coverups in Japan, that probably didn't get a lot of press.

The hell you talking about? Have you not noticed that anything that so much criticize Japan is downvoted to oblivion? It's more like SanCom is being overun by 2ch tards that have nothing better to do than to defend Japan every second.